Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LAST WEEK, Greek and Korean students have escalated their struggles for academic freedom, political democracy and human dignity to levels of heroism difficult for American students even to imagine. In both Greece and South Korea, military dictators have threatened to use massive military force to end student demonstrators' demands for free elections and civil liberties...
Mishima sealed this literary package with his ritual suicide in 1970, when he was only 45. Unlike, say, Ernest Hemingway, who shot himself at 61 in apparent despair over a deteriorating mind, Mishima killed himself in what seemed a gesture of robust if wasteful heroism, the ultimate act of self-control. Since his death was so theatrically deliberate, the temptation is strong to judge the tetralogy as an artistic and philosophical suicide note to the world. The note is now three-quarters completed for English-language readers. It is fascinating and ambitious, but the final message (and literary value...
...University in 1937 to study chemistry. He transferred to Baltimore Law School three years later and received his LLB in 1947, having attended classes at night and worked as a clerk in the day. As a company combat commander in World War II, Agnew received a Bronze Star for heroism in France and Germany...
...people who posed for her can be called freaks in the sense of having abnormal bodies, but clearly they fascinated Arbus by exuding the same heroism that she perceived in genuine freaks...
...staff and "the Old Flamethrower" to his troops. During the bitter, 26-day battle for Iwo, his men suffered some 5,000 casualties, but launched the Pacific war's first major night attack against the Japanese, and were awarded the Presidential Citation for their heroism. In 1950 Erkskine was denied his request to take the 1st Division to Korea and was transferred to the Pentagon, where he served eight years as Assistant Secretary of Defense...